Item Summary

1, 2 – Aida Rostami, a 36-year-old Iranian physician, was allegedly kidnapped and fatally beaten by Iranian security forces. She was killed for treating protesters injured during anti-government protests following the police killing of Mahsa Jina Amini. Protestors, fearing detention, torture, prosecution, or death, avoided seeking medical help in hospitals. Aida Rostami secretly provided medical care to protestors in Ekbatan and other neighborhoods in western Tehran. One day, she left a protester's home but never came back. Her family was informed the next morning by a local police station that she had died in a car crash, and they needed to retrieve her body from a morgue.

2 – Kian Pirfalak, was a nine-year-old boy from the southwestern Iranian city of Izeh in Khuzestan Province. He was shot and killed by the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran on November 16, 2022, while he was inside his parent's vehicle during a protest staged in response to the police killing of Mahsa Jina Amini. A video capturing Kian testing his hand-made boat and uttering the phrase "in the name of the God of rainbows'' gained immense attention online. This symbolic reference to rainbows has since emerged as a significant motif within the various memorials honoring Kian.

Descriptive Information

Title
Romina Shahidi
Sort Title
romina shahidi
Creator of work
Shahidi, Romina
Language
Persian
Date Created
2022
Format
Ephemera
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright

Discovery Information

Subject
Arts and culture
Arts
Arts--Political aspects
Human and civil rights
Collective memory
Freedom of expression
Human rights
Political violence
Women's rights
Minorities, ethnic and racial groups
Minorities
Politics and government
Civil society
Democracy
Revolutions
Geographic Subject
Iran
Keywords
Iran Protest Movements
Geographic Origin
Iran

Physical Characteristics

Page Count
2
File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Woman Life Freedom Movement: Iran 2022
Box number
Woman Life Freedom Movement: Iran 2022
Folder number
60
Barcode
Romina Shahidi
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/ephemera_folders/4142423e-0842-493e-a1f2-e6c9181c782a/manifest